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Apofison Anduril to take over Microsoft's U.S. Army $22B headset program

He reminds me of Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

Apofison Rosatom's new plasma engine could potentially cut Mars travel time to 60 days

Rosatom is a scientific and engineering agency, not a propaganda agency, they're not running a social media company. I'll wait for more test results, it's new tech, they know how to run their numbers.

Apofison San Francisco unveils marble bust of Aaron Swartz

With Meta pirating 72gb of books to train their AI models, this is all the more poignant.

Apofison My second year without a job

These past three year's markets have been super tough. It's the hardest I've worked in my life to be employed in the field I was interested in actually working in, which is building software. I've had to get two new roles in that time due to layoffs. 1000's of applications, and all that entails. I was ready to be a farmhand this summer before things actually worked out, figured I would get to work a farm on a lake, and fish on my time off, it's pretty much what I want to do when I retire, shouldn't be so bad. Just be flexible. Work as hard as you can to get what you want, but remember McDonalds pays nearly $20 an hour these days, if it keeps the lights on, don't be above it. Better than being homeless.

Apofison Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps

It was a matter of time until MS started peddling a thin-client with just a streamed OS.

Apofison Grubhub sold for $650M. Four years ago it was worth $7.3B

I used to be able to order Chinese Food or Pizza and pay a $2 tip on top of the order and everyone was happy. Ordering food has changed for the worse in innumerous ways.

Apofison My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally

I'm one of those people that doesn't like polluting his brain with a ton of keyboard shortcuts and likes clicking with a mouse on stuff and is just more efficient with it. I've seen video clips of "efficient" terminal text editor use, and while it looks cool in a hacker way, it just isn't any faster than what I do without all of the overhead of memorizing a ton of keyboard shortcuts and editor commands.

I would definitely much rather install VSCode or an IntelliJ product on a Jr's machine, show them how to setup their terminal, get their dev environment setup, how to run and debug the app, and off they go. Edit code. Run code. Debug code. Rinse repeat.

Much more reasonable and preferable to having them spend months learning Emacs. Let's remember, they likely don't know how to use the terminal either these days.

Apofison Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it

X is going to go the way of Digg.

Apofison Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

EV's have been horrifically ugly and/or boring for decades, its fine for the Cybertruck to buck that trend.

Apofison Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back

I don't think I can code for 10 hours straight. My brain is usually pretty expanded by the late afternoon.

Apofison We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

That likely wouldn't work, doesn't mean the letters were simply rotated. Would probably be just random.

Apofison How to Learn Rust in 2024

I was expecting there to a be a HyperSkill Rust course announcement in there, but there wasn't. Is anyone aware of a resource like that out there?

Apofison HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver

Display port over USB-C is awesome. HDMI isn't needed anymore.

Apofison Acorn – Use Laravel Inside WordPress

I am horrified by this notion. There's no reason to not just build a CMS on Laravel if you actually have PHP developers on hand, even if you have one competent PHP dev on hand you they should be able to build a CMS on Laravel without issue. This whole concept doesn't make sense to me.

Apofison Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

Build that into the TV Guide!

Apofison Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

This is definitely a pie-in-the-sky DARPA challenge that would be great to have around as we migrate away from legacy systems, however, even taking your functions/methods in one language and giving them to ChatGPT and asking it to translate your method to a different language generally doesn't work. Asking ChatGPT the initial problem you're trying to solve, works more frequently, but still generally doesn't work. You still need to do a lot of tinkering and thinking to get even basic things to work that it outputs.

Apofison I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]

Ope! Missed that. He definitely is.

Apofison I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]

If you found the video on Super Mario 64 being published with debug symbols interesting, check this out: After finding out about the debug symbols, a developer took a deeper dive through the codebase and optimized the ever living hell out of to get 60fps+.

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE

Apofison Alien: Romulus – Teaser Trailer [video]

I hope not, the "Alien: Isolation" game held the ambiance of the original very very well.

Apofison We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong

The doctors I know go to conferences all the time, so I'm not sure this is 100% accurate. Many also read medical publication journals.

Apofison What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015)

With all of the sanctions China is really starting to push RISC forward, challenge ARM, and they are starting to find success. That "No" has absolutely changed to a "Maybe".

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-and-china-au...

Apofison CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox (2023)

Do we have any recordings of the lectures?

Apofison Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

I'm surprised they didn't speak about the implementation at all. Anyone got more intel?

Apofison Let's give the Mac Classic 4 megs of RAM [video]

Someone, somewhere, someday, will imbed one of these types of devices in packaging and greeting cards and we'll be there.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/24/is-this-one-of-the-smal...

Apofison Let's give the Mac Classic 4 megs of RAM [video]

I read that as "Let's give Mac & Cheese 4 megs of RAM [video]" and was instantly delighted.

Apofison Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

   Location: Minnesota. Willing to relocate back to Bay Area.

  Remote: Yea. 

  Willing to relocate: Yes. 

  Technologies: Fullstack Developer / Sr Software Engineer. JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, C, Python. 

  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emperorkonstantin

  Email: hackernews@theixo.com

Apofison Space Nuclear Propulsion

I can really see this happening with Malten Salt Reactors finally getting traction. China already has built a demonstrator and is now building a full-scale version of an MSR Reactor and now finally the US is building a demonstrator as well.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/us-nuclear-test-r...

Apofison NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab laying off 8% of its workforce

Even NASA isn’t escaping the layoff tsunami. Everyone is getting decimated.

Apofison Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center

A facility like that should have been off limits to be honest.

Apofison Dumbphone Finder

Just get an iPhone SE. They're small, still functional, and inexpensive.